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Beggars and Bishops in Roman Cappadocia
Susan R. Holman
ISBN: 9780195139129
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
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Ancient sermons about the poor have often been neglected by scholars in favor of more "theological" themes. Susan R. Holman helps to redress that neglect with this study, the first book-length treatment in any modern language to focus exclusively on a collection of sermons about poverty, starvation, and disease by three leading Christian bishops of late Antiquity: Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa.
This study examines the theme of poverty in the fourth-century sermons of Basil of Caesarea, Gregory Nazianzen, and Gregory Nysson. These sermons are especially important for what they tell us about the history of poverty relief and the role of fourth century Christian theology in constructing the body of the redemptive, involuntary poor. Some of the topics explored include the contextualization of the poor in scholarship, the poor in late antiquity, and starvation and famine dynamics. In exploring this relationship between cultural context and theological language, this volume offers a broad and fresh overview of these little-studied texts.
| ISBN | 0195139127 | | Pages | 250 | | ISBN13 | 9780195139129
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc | | Weight (grammes) | 562 | | Imprint | Oxford University Press Inc | | Published in | New York | | Format | Hardback | | Series title | Oxford Studies in Historical Theology | | Publication date | 01 Jun 2001 | | Height (mm) | 231 | | Library of Congress | 00058877 | | Width (mm) | 155 | | DEWEY | 261.8325 | | Spine width (mm) | 21 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | Abbreviations | | | | | | Introduction: Placing the Poor | | 3 | | 1 | | Leitourgia and the Poor in the Early Christian World | | 31 | | 2 | | Hunger: Famine, Relief, and Identity in Basil's Cappadocia | | 64 | | 3 | | Penury and Divine Gift: The Poor as Fiscal Body | | 99 | | 4 | | Diseased and Holy: The Peri Philoptochias Sermons and the Transforming Body | | 135 | | 5 | | Conclusion: Between Courtyard and Altar | | 168 | | App. A | | Basil of Caesarea, "In Time of Famine and Drought" | | 183 | | App. B | | Gregory of Nyssa, "On the Love of the Poor" 1: "On Good Works" | | 193 | | App. C | | Gregory of Nyssa, "On the Love of the Poor" 2: "On the Saying, 'Whoever Has Done It to One of These Has Done It to Me'" | | 199 | | | | Select Bibliography | | 207 | | | | Index | | 223 |
This is a good book, of value to students in a variety of areas: ancient history, theology, and economics. It brings together a wide range of information and theoretical comment from others, with sufficient of Holman's own to challenge and stimulate. Journal of Theological Studies An excellent study ... very sensitive and perceptive. Bryn Mawr Classical Review  Be the first to write a customer review
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